Boris Johnson promises cash for NHS to tackle waiting lists built up during Covid pandemic Mirror 9 hrs ago Mikey Smith
Boris Johnson has promised to give the NHS the cash it needs to tackle waiting lists that have built up during the pandemic.
It comes after new data showed 4.7 million people were waiting for routine procedures, the highest figure since 2007.
Speaking during a visit to Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, the Prime Minister said: This a real priority now for our country - 4.7 million people on waiting lists. Of course, it s been exacerbated, it s been made worse, by Covid, people I don t think have been going to hospital, haven t been going to use medical facilities in the way that they might have been throughout the pandemic.
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